No, Donald Trump Does Not Know What The Hell He Is Doing

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One on April 11, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. 

“I know what the hell I’m doing!”

That boaster-in-chief Donald Trump would say something like this is not surprising in the least. With his taking the wheel of a healthy economy and driving it headlong toward a cliff, that a single American can still believe him — now that is a surprise.

At the core of the president’s trade agenda is his “gut” feeling that if a country sells the US more goods than it imports...